Action Research Proposal

In 1980, a new programme KBSR (or integrated curriculum for primary coil school) was introduced in secernate to develop individuals who be more rounded and versatile. Later on, the KBSM (the integrated curriculum for secondary school) was implemented as the students progressed to secondary school. As a extension of the strategy, the secondary school program was developed, whereby it is emphasizing on the initiateing of foursome language skills (reading, listening, writing, and speaking). Besides that, sound system, grammar and vocabulary be also include as the content of the syllabus.Here, the purpose of the strategy is to upgrade general advance of English Language among Malaysian students. Most of the tasks listed in our syllabus are focusing on the communicative purpose. But, in fact, classroom approaches are ordinarily depends on the teacher to decide the best methods for his or her own class. For the primary level pupil, they learn English eight periods a week from mea surement One to banal Three and seven periods a week from Standard Four to Standard Six. At the secondary level, students learn English pentad periods a week.Myriad of background, ranging from diverse ethnicity closely consisting of Malay, Chinese and Indian students to differences in personality traits and motivational levels and types are the unique features of our Malaysian school classrooms. thither is a growing trend in language education immediately to shift the focus from the teacher to learner. This view sees the learner as the agile participant in the learning process and the teachers occasion not only to teach the learner what to learn but to teach the learner how to learn.In other words the teachers prime role is to help learners become independent or autonomous learners I sire been in SJK (T) Pengkalan Hulu for about three months. I set about been given responsibility to teach English Language for Year 4 pupils. The pupils in my class are with diametrical learni ng ability and different competence level. There are good, muffle and weak pupils in my class. Therefore, I need to manage myself to be familiar with the pupils attitude and behavior.In addition, I need to know their needs in learning process whereby they have different level of English Language competence. The English language competency level among the Year 4 pupils of SJK (T) Pengkalan Hulu is mix between low and moderate level. They are very weak in vocabulary and pronunciation. Failure to mortify both aspects need to be tackled to meet the challenge to produce students who are able to communicate and versatile.